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Edward Jjyfi Patented Jan. 21, 1936 UNITED STATES v 2,028,140 WINDING MACHINE Edward J. Abbott, Wilton, N. 11., 'assignor to Abbott Machine Company, Wilton, N. H., a corporation of New Hampshire Application November 24, 1931, Serial No. 517,055 16 Claims. (01. zeta-35.5)

This application is in part a continuation of my application Serial No. 488,889, filed October 15, 1930, patented March 19, 1935, Patent No. 1,994,455. The invention is of particular applicability to multiple winding, twisting or spinning machines of the kind wherein a plurality of winding packages are caused to travel about the machine accompanied by traveling traverse mechanisms adapted to distribute the winding strands in quick-pitch spirals on the winding packages to form the well known headless self-sustaining cheeses or cones. Machines of this general type are disclosed in the patent of E. J. Abbott and W. G. Abbott, Jr., No. 1,700,425, in my copending applications Serial .No. 476,776 entitled Method and machine for preparing yarn packages, filed August 21, 1930, and Serial No. 508,868,'entitled Strand manipulating mechanisms, filed January 15, 1931, patented July 3, 1934, -Patent No. 1,964,715. The principal object of this invention is to provide for automatically oiling the traveling traverse mechanisms of the machine. Another object is so to accomplish the oiling operation as to avoid getting oil on any parts of the traveling mechanism not intended or required to be oiled, thus to avoid soilingof the strand material with oil. Other. objects of invention and features of novelty and advantage will be apparent from this specification wherein a specific instance of' my invention is explained by way of example.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 is a plan view of a multiple winding machine having traveling Winding units such as dis- 5 closed in my application Serial No. 476,776, with many parts removed, this view illustrating the machine as provided with cooperating oiling mechanism of this invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of one traveling unit of the machine as the unit reaches the beginning of a rotary drive roll after having been oiled;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view of the portion of the machine carrying the oiling mechanism;

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view takenon the line 4-4 of Fig. 3 and showing the oiling mechamsm;

. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3;

i Fig. 6 is a detail plan view of the traversing strand guide of one traveling unit of the ma-- chine;

i Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional detail view taken on the line 1-7 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 8'is a vertical sectional view onthe line 8-4? of Fig. 1, showing means whereby the winding operation on a given unit is stopped and the strand removed from its traverse guide.

In the illustrated machine a plurality of wind- ,60 ingor other strand-manipulating units on individual carriers I 0 (of which only one is shown in Fig. 1) are caused to travel in a procession along opposite straight and semi-circular runs on a guide rail 4, by means of an endless chain 30 running on opposite driven and idle sprocket 5 wheels 36 and 36 respectively, all as described in the patent and copending applications mentioned above. Each Winding unit preferably carries its own unwinding supply package (not shown) from which strand material y (Fig. 2) is wound onto a 10 winding package C carried by the unit. Any suitable driving means may be provided for rotating the several winding packages 0 of the traveling units, the machine being herein illustrated equipped with opposite suitably driven rotating 15 tractor rolls 50 and 5| adapted to contact with the several winding packages as, for example, in the machines of the above patent and copending application Serial No. 476,776. The winding package C of each carrier unit is preferably 2 formed on a core, tube, quill, cone, or the like, suitably held on a spindle 12. The spindle 12 is conveniently'mounted near the end of an arm ll pivotally attached to the unit and capable of swinging upwardly and outward to the position 25 of Fig. 1 to support the winding package in an inactive position in passing around the curved end of the machine, and capable of swinging downward and inward to allow the winding package to rest on and be rotated by the tractor roll 30 50 or 5| for winding.

The machine may be provided with any suitable automatic means for raising the winding package to its inactive position as it leaves roll 5!,

and for restoring the package to its active wind- 35 ing position as it reaches roll 50.

Referring to Fig. 8, such means may include (as described in my application Serial No. 476,776) a. dog 362 carried on an enlarged head 360 of a horizontal shaft 303 on the traveling 40 unit and adapted to strike in passing and be rotated by a pin 30'! extending from the rail 4, thus to turn shaft 303 and a crank 302 to raise a lifter rod 30! and swing the package-carrying arm and package C in a clockwise direction to 5 the dotted lineposition of Fig. 8. For restoring the package C into winding position in contact with roll 50, the enlarged head 300 of shaft 303 may be provided with projections in the form of cam followers 314 and 375 adapted to strike 50 respective inclined cam surfaces 31! and 372 of a cam 310 located on rail 4 at the beginning of roll 50 (Fig. 2). Such contact of the cam followers 314, 315 results in a controlled counterclockwise rotation of the shaft 303 (Fig. 2), and 55 a lowering of lifter rod 30! sufficient to bring the package C into contact with roll 50.

The individual winding carrier unit I!) in its preferred form is constructed, as described in application Serial No. 476,776, of a main cast- 5 ing 65 (Fig. 3) having transversely extending end plates 66 and 61 between which is mounted a rotary barrel traverse cam I0. This cam 10 is spirally grooved as shown in Fig. 3, to receive and drive the pivoted dog I00 of a follower i0I,

(Figs. 6 and 7) which is slidably mounted on a horizontal rod I00 and which carries an upward extending grooved eye I06 engageable with the yarn strand. Suitable driving connections for the traverse cam may include tires ll thereon which engage and are turned by drive rolls and.5I successively, as the carrier moves around the guideway.

It will readily be observed that the traverse device of each unit is inactive in passing from the end of roll 5| to the beginning of roll 50, due to absence of driving action on the tires II during this time. It will further be observed that the strand y is held in a raised position away from the traverse guide I06 during this time, due to the raised position of the package C, and is restored into position to be engaged by the traverse guide only when the package C is lowered onto the roll 50. The desired oiling of the traverse guide rods I 00 of the several units by the improved means of this invention is preferably carried on during this interval in which the traverse device is inactive and the strand is disengaged by the traverse device.

For oiling the guide rods I 00 upon which the traversing sliders of the carriers move, I prefer to provide an applicator brush 23!) mounted in a horizontal tube 23I connecting through a vertical tube 232 with an oil reservoir 233, the device preferably being pivotally mounted in a sleeve 234 fast on the guide rail 4, and being yieldingly urged by a coil spring 235 to press the brush 230 against the traverse guide rods I00 of passing carriers. Referring to Fig. 7, the dog I 00 of the cam follower is shown as provided with a pin I00 integral therewith and extending into a hole I00 in the follower. The upper end of the hole I00 is joined by a transverse hole I00 opening at the level swept by the brush 230. Thus as the follower I M passes the brush 230, oil is received fromthe brush by hole I00 from whence it passes through hole I00 to lubricate pin I 00 and down onto dog I00 to lubricate this member and the groove of the cam I0. Oil from the brush will also run down the outside of follower IOI and lubricate the follower I 00 and groove of the cam 10.

The oiling mechanism just described is preferably located, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 at a point at which the traverse devices and the winding packages of the winding units are inactive; that is, a point reached by the winding unit after leaving roll 5| and before reaching roll 50. The strand 1 leading to the package C is held up out of the traverse guide eye I06 during this time due to the elevated position of the inactive package C. V v

- Means is preferablyprovided for preventing the oiling mechanism from placing oil on the other parts of the traveling units adjacent to the traverse slider I0! and its guide rod I00 this means preferably acting to keep the applicator brush 230 away from the opposite side plates 66 and 61. For this purpose the mechanism whereby the several units are moved by the chain 30 is preferably employed to move the brush 230 out of its active position. Referring to Fig. 3, spaced links of the chain 30 are enlarged as indicated at 3i to providea pivotal connection for a link 32 which is connected to a boss 33 on the main casting 65 of the traveling unit. The vertical sleeve 234 carries a double crank arm 2 50 pivotally mounted in a boss 2 thereon. A normally downwardly extending arm 240 of the crank 240 extends (Fig. 5) into the path traversed by the enlarged links 3| of the chain 30, so as to be raised to the dotted line position of Fig. 4 when one of these enlarged links is encountered. The opposite upwardly extending arm 240 is bent at its upper end into the form of a loop 240 which loosely embraces a pin 250 fast in the rotatable connection 232 which carries the applicator brush. Lifting of the lower arm ME by a passing enlarged link SI thus swings the upper arm 24t to the dotted position of Figs. 3 and 4, and as a consequence swings the connection 232, the tube 23I and brush 230 out of the way of the side plate 66 of the unit being oiled. The arm 240 is sufiiciently long to ride on and be supported by the enlarged link 3| until the leading side plate 61 of the next adjacent unit has passed the arcuate path of the brush 230, whereupon the arm 20!) drops again, allowing the spring 235 to swing the brush into contact with the slider guide rod I 00 of that unit. In this 7 way the invention avoids all danger of splashing oil on the parts not intended to be oiled.

Preferably the oiling operation described above is preceded by a cleaning of the traverse guide rod I00 and slider I 0| to remove lint and like matter therefrom. For this purpose the machine is preferably provided with a nozzle 364 (Fig. 1) connected to a suitable supply 35 I of compressed air and directed toward the guide rods I 00 of the passing units, as described in my copending application Serial No. 577,056 filed concurrently herewith. The parts to be oiled by the brush 230 are thus first thoroughly cleaned by compressed air, and when oiled are in the desirable state of freedom from objectionable lint and the like.

It should be understood that the present disclosure is for the purpose of illustration only and that this invention includes all modifications and equivalents which fall within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim: I

1. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each winding unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, and means for automatically causing said lubricator to act successively on the traverse devices of the several winding units.

2. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each winding'unit, a lubricator adapted to supply luricant to a traverse device, and means for moving the several winding units past the lubricator with their traverse devices in position to be acted on successively by said lubricator.

3. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, means for moving the several winding units past the lubricator, with their traverse devices in position to be acted on successively by said lubricator, and means for driving the traverse devices only in parts of their path other than where acted on by the lubricator,

a traverse device, means for moving the several winding units past the lubricator with their traverse devices in position to be acted on successively by said lubricator, means for removing strands of yarn from the traverse devices as they approach the lubricator, and means for subsequently returning the strands to the traverse devices after leaving the lubricator.

5. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each winding unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, means for causing a relative movement between the lubricator'and the series of winding units such as to present the lubricator in turn to each, and means for causing additional motion of the lubricator in respect to each unit to bring the lubricator into association with the traverse device of the unit and out of such association to clear the unit.

6. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each winding unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, a chain for moving the winding units past the lubricator, said lubricator being mounted for motion toward and away from the path of the traverse devicesof said units and means operated by said chain for causing said motion or the lubricator in respect to the successive traverse devices.

7. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each winding unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, conveying means for moving the winding units past the lubricator, said lubricator being mounted for motion toward and away from the path of the traverse devices of said units and means operated by said conveying means for causing said motion of the lubricator in respect to the successive traverse devices.

8. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each winding unit comprising a guide rod, end supports therefor and a traversing slider on the guide rod, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to the guide rod of suchtraverse device, means for presenting said units successively to the lubricator and means for imparting to the lubricator a motion such that it applies lubricant to the guide rods and clears the end supports of the successive guide rods. I

9. A textile machine having winding mechanism and a traversing device including a guide rod, a slider on the guide rod, a rotary cam and a cam follower driven by the cam and connected to the slider to reciprocate the latter, means for applying lubricant along the guide rod, and a conduit in the slider adapted to receive lubricant from said means and leading to the cam follower to lubricate the latter.

10. A textile machine having winding mechanism and a traversing device including a guide rod, a slider on the guide rod, a rotary cam and a cam follower driven by the cam and connected to the slider to reciprocate the latter, means for applying lubricant along the guide rod, and a conduit in the slider adapted to receive lubricant from said means and leading to the connection between the follower and the slider to lubricate said connection.

11. A multiple textile machine having a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, means for moving the several winding units past the lubricator, with their traverse devices in position to be acted on successively by said lubricator, means for driving the traverse devices, and. means whereby said traverse devices are successively disconnected from the driving means prior to reaching the lubricator so as to be inactive when presented thereto.

12. A multiple textile machine having therein a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, means for causing a relative movement between the lubricator and the series of winding units such as to present the lubricator in turn to each, means for automatically removing strands of yarn from the traverse devices in preparation for action of the lubricator on the latter, and means for subsequently returning the strands to the traverse devices after said action of the lubricator.

13. A multiple textile machine having therein a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each unit, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, an air jet adapted to direct a blast of air at a traverse device, and means for causing a relative movement between the lubricator and air jet and the series of winding units such as to present the lubricator and air jet in turn to each unit, the lubricator and air jet being arranged so that the air jet cleans the successive traverse devices in preparation for the action of the lubricator thereon.

14. A multiple textile machine having therein a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each unit, an air jet adapted to direct a blast of air at a traverse device, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to a traverse device, and means for moving the several winding units in a procession past the air jet and the lubricator in the order named, 'to clean and then lubricate the several traverse devices.

15. A multiple textile machine having therein a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each unit, comprising a traversing slider and guiding means therefor, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to the said guiding means of a traverse device, an air jet adapted to direct a blast of air at the said guiding means of a traverse device, and means for causing a relative movement between the lubricator and air jet and the series of winding units such as to present the lubricator and air jet in turn to each unit. the lubricator and air jet being arranged so that the air jet cleans the said guiding means of the successive traverse devices in preparation for the action of the lubricator thereon.

16. A multiple textile machine having therein a plurality of winding units, a traverse device for each unit comprising a traversing slider and guid ing means therefor, a lubricator adapted to supply lubricant to the said guiding means of a traverse device, an air jet adapted to direct a blast of air at the said guiding means of a traverse device, and means for moving the several winding units in a procession past the air jet and the lubricator in the order named, to clean and then lubricate the said guiding means of the several traverse devices.

EDWARD J. ABBO'I'I'. 

